Health, what is it worth?
Subtitle: Measures of health benefits
By: edited by Selma J. Mushkin, David W. Dunlop.
Contributors: Mushkin, Selma J., 1913-; Dunlop, David W.
Series: Pergamon policy studies ; no. 23
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Medicine -- Research -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.; Health status indicators -- Congresses.; Medicine -- Research -- Cost effectiveness -- Congresses.; Medical care -- Evaluation -- Congresses.; Social values -- Congresses.; Cost benefit analysis -- Congresses.; Economics, Medical -- Congresses.; Health -- Congresses.; Health resources -- Economics -- Congresses.
Description: This book is a collection of papers that tackles concerns in health care services and health benefit systems. The title first deals with the measure of health status, along with the policy that governs it and the results of contemporary biomedical research. The text also covers the approaches for the assessment of long-term care. The next part talks about valuing health and health benefits. Next, the selection deals with a method for the computation of the social rate of returns derived from investments in biomedical research. The last part discusses the concerns in health resource allocation.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 339-361.
"Derived from a series of papers presented at a two-day conference at Georgetown University in September 1977."
Includes index.